App Fighting

This week I had two customers with DMK Boxes wondering why they
could see themselves using iNavX but no other data like AIS or
wind. Another customer had issues getting his DMK App connected.
All of these customers were experiencing the same overall issue,
"App Fighting."

For non computer people I'll explain it like this. The apps were
confused about who is supposed to ask the DMK Box for the data. The
solution is to connect in any other apps that are running in the
background or to force quit those apps and restart them later. Once
you have all the apps streaming the connection is very robust. The
customers were only able to see themselves because the app was
using Location Services (cell tower triangulation) to get the
iPad's position. There was no data stream coming to the app even
though the iPod had made the connection. The first option for
fixing this is to simply go into any app that may be running and
turn on the connection if there is an option to do so. This is not
uncommon when using iNavX and the DMK App to need to turn the other
on before you get both to work. Simply follow the process to open
the link by tapping connect in the DMK App or by going to
Preferences and then to TCP/IP Client in iNavX, then turning the
link on.

Sometimes two apps just can't work together through a DMK Box.
This situation is very rare and we would love to hear about it so
we can inform the App's developers and correct the issues. Still it
may be necassary to force quit an app to make another work. To
force quit an app, press twice on the home button. The apps running
should appear in the bottom of the screen. Next hold your finger
over an app until the red X appears in the upper left corner of all
the apps. Tap on the X to quit the app. Once you are done quitting
apps press the home button to exit quitting.